Return to Skull Island back in 1933 with Eddie Guimont to see whether there's more to the overlooked SON OF KONG than you've heard. Topics include:
-UPDATE ON PERCY FAWCETT’s LOST CITY!
-Occult beliefs in Bolsonaro’s government
-Was Kong intended to be sympathetic?
-The origins & making of Son of Kong
-The real-life colonial adventures of Kong’s creators
-The social and economic world of Kong’s 1933
-The trope of the ancient lost monument-builders
-The ethnicity of the Skull Islanders
-Willis O’Brien’s special effects
-Lovecraft and Mysterious Islands
Links:
Jason Colavito on Percy Fawcett
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-plausible-explanation-for-the-lost-city-of-manuscript-512
Kong: The History Of A Movie Icon, Ray Morton, 2005
When The Stars Are Right, Edward Guimont and Horace A Smith
From Crypto's to Kaiju, Justin Mullen (currently restricted access)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03080188241234141
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